This melts my heart a little! What a lovely idea. And what fun it will be for you choosing the postcards.
Oh I have to say I love this one too!!
Totally cool idea. Thank you for sharing it!!
Goosebumps! What a great idea!
What a perfect idea! I love it!
What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing!
What a beautiful idea - such a lovely sentiment she can hold onto forever!
I was just saying to someone this morning that time passes so fast we should WRITE more stuff down (and take lots of pictures).
I *love* the idea of sending your daugher a postcard. I’ve also heard of people setting up e-mail accounts for their kids and writing to them whenever they think of it. Personally, I’m trying to do a “dear layla” and “dear meaghan” post every 6 months or so on my blog…
Great post!
very sweet…great idea!!!
I am not great with the baby book, but I love photographs, too. I plan to do a photo book each year at Finnley’s birthday to tell her story in pictures. I hope she loves them one day!
This blog is her baby book Sarah! A treasured keepsake that can never be lost. But the postcard - also very cool. I wish I had videotaped my kids more when they were babies and toddlers. That’s what I wish I’d done differently.
What a great idea.
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It really isnt a very busy place yet but it is a wonderful place:)Absolutely, Sarah. This blog—totally her baby book. You may want to edit out certain “daddy and mommy special time” entries (or not… a little bit of child scarring is good. Toughens ‘em up), but really, this blog is such a love devotional. Hard day? You still love her, immensely. Great day? Love, immensely. And you’re recording her special and other moments far better than any other memory book I’ve seen.
<3, hurrah for postcards from the past.
What a lovely idea. I may just have to try it.
My Gracie has started ignoring me when I have the camera and she’s not even 5 months old!!!
Just like her daddy. I fear that all of her baby pictures will be of her head turned away from the scary flash! HA.
I’m doing something similar with my son. Every week, I take a picture of him and turn it into a postcard for the grandparents. They love getting an update with a new photo to show off!
I might have to follow your lead and make one more to send back to him. Anyone know if boys are as sentimental about this sort of thing?
What a lovely idea. One that I may start doing…
I LOVE this idea!
My husband gets a postcard on every trip he goes on and frames them in a simple frame on the wall of his home office. We’re just about ready to move on to a second wall. :)
I think your idea is fabulous!
I think that’s just about the most fantastic idea I’ve ever heard. Would you mind terribly if I borrow it?
oh gosh, that’s a wonderful idea !!!!
This is such a lovely idea. I read a blog of a travelling family, who’s children chose and sent postcards to themselves when they were on a trip. At home, they’d put the postcards in albums to remember their trips. We are planning a round the world trip, leaving in November, and I am going to get our children to do this too.

By Stephanie on March 31, 2010
OH MY GOSH.
First, I am the same way. I love love love stuff like this. And…I might use this idea.